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Canoe travel in the Truk area: technology and its psychological correlates
American anthropologist • 60 • Published In 1958 • Pages: 893-899
By: Gladwin, Thomas.
Abstract
This article discusses the various factors involved in the extensive canoe trips of the Chuukese, which often covered over two hundred miles in length and occupied weeks and sometimes months in time. The factors that Gladwin believes are very important in such lengthy travels are the individual's psychological adaptation to long periods of loneliness at sea, the special design of the canoes for open sea voyaging, the individual's skill in navigating his boat, and finally the factor of social organization which allowed a Chuukese to have 'brothers,' real, classificatory or artificial, on many distant islands, offering him hospitality at the end of a long sea voyage.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1999
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Micronesia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1964
- Field Date
- 1947-1951
- Coverage Date
- 1947-1951
- Coverage Place
- Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia
- Notes
- Thomas Gladwin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 898-899)
- LCCN
- 17015424
- LCSH
- Trukese (Micronesian people)